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00:01See, I am learning Milton ways, Mr. Thornton.
00:04Multure!
00:05He's shown himself.
00:10Henry, I... I'm sorry.
00:13My daughter Margaret, I wish you to be a friend.
00:17I will counsel you with my own daughter.
00:20I have a brother.
00:23I'm sorry, you have company already.
00:25No, indeed we do not. There is no one here, Mr. Thornton.
00:28He's a gentleman, Fred, and has been very good to us.
00:36Do what you like. Write to Henry if you must,
00:39but do not keep Frederick in England.
00:42He identified the lady as a Miss Hale from Crampton.
00:45I was not there.
00:47I have not the slightest wish to pry into the gentleman's secrets.
00:50I'm only concerned as your father's friend.
00:52I hope you realise that any foolish passion for you on my part is entirely over.
01:00You Zedman, here, straight and legatreth.....
01:05You are here!
01:06You are there!
01:25You're comingxt!
01:26I know you!
01:29Go on! Go on!
01:39And don't join your guests in here again!
01:45Though the autumn is turning chilly, I'm still determined to take my daily walk.
01:51I cannot persuade father to join me.
01:53He has been very cast down since mother's death.
01:57He keeps to the house in his own company, and he has very few visitors to disturb him.
02:08That man Higgins is here.
02:10Oh, show him up, Dixon.
02:11If you saw his shoes, you'd say the kitchen were a better place.
02:15He can wipe them, surely.
02:29I've been looking for work.
02:32I've been keeping a civil tongue in my head, and not minding who says what back to me.
02:36I'm doing it for him, of course, not me.
02:39Boucher.
02:41Well, not for him.
02:43He doesn't need my help where he is, but his children.
02:49But I'll need your help, master, if you'll give it.
02:51Gladly, but what can I do?
02:53Well, Miss Sierra's often talked about the south.
02:57I don't know how far it is, but I've been thinking if I can get down there where food is
03:01cheap and wages are good and people are friendly.
03:07Maybe you can help me get work there.
03:09Oh, what kind of work?
03:11I think I'm good with a spade.
03:12You mustn't leave Milton of the south.
03:15You couldn't bear the dullness of life.
03:17It would eat away at you like rust.
03:20Think no more of it, Nicholas.
03:22I beg you.
03:25Nicholas.
03:27Have you been to Marlborough Mills for work?
03:30I have been to Thornton's.
03:32The Overlooker told me to be often.
03:35He told me to go away, sharpish.
03:38Would you try again?
03:39I should be so glad if you would.
03:42Mr Thornton would judge you fairly, I'm sure, if given the chance.
03:46I would take my pride.
03:50I think I'd rather starve.
03:53Well, if you can think of anything, must I?
03:56Well, of course, of course.
03:59I'll bid you goodnight.
04:01I am sorry, Nicholas.
04:06You'll find your shoes by the fire.
04:15He's a proud man.
04:17Still, there are qualities to be admired in these Milton men.
04:24Maybe God has found his way here after all.
04:28If only he and Mr Thornton could speak man to man.
04:31If he could forget Mr Thornton is a master and appeal to his heart.
04:35My word, Margaret.
04:37To admit that the South has its faults and that Mr Thornton has his virtues.
04:43What has happened to bring about such a transformation?
05:11Mrs Thornton, thank you for sparing the time to visit us.
05:14My father is detained, but he'd be touched by your kindness.
05:19Thank you for your kind messages.
05:21We're so grateful.
05:23My aunt has sent me details of a little Italian tune that Miss Thornton asked me about.
05:29Miss Hale, I'm afraid I did not visit to indulge Fanny's thirst for light music.
05:37Miss Hale, I have a duty to perform.
05:39Miss Hale, I promised your mother that if I knew you had acted wrongly, I would offer you advice, whether
05:47he chose to take it or not.
05:49So when I learned from one of my servants that you had been seen out after dark with a gentleman,
05:57I thought it right to warn you against such impropriety.
06:03Many a young woman has lost her character.
06:05Mrs Thornton, I'm sure my mother never meant me to be exposed to insult.
06:13Whatever Mr Thornton has told you, I can assure you that...
06:17My son has told me nothing.
06:20You know nothing of the man you rejected.
06:24If he has any knowledge of this, he keeps it to himself as any man of honour would.
06:28Of course.
06:30I don't doubt it.
06:40I cannot give you any sort of explanation.
06:43I've done wrong.
06:46But not in the way you imagine or imply.
06:49I did not approve of my son's attachment to you.
06:53He did not seem worthy to me.
06:55But I was prepared for his sake.
06:59Your behaviour on the day of the riots exposed you to the comments of servants.
07:04But by the time my son had proposed, you'd change your mind.
07:12Maybe there's other lover.
07:14You must think very little of me, madam.
07:17I can't claim to be sorry you refused my son.
07:20No, I'm glad.
07:22Especially now when you expose yourself to gossip and ridicule.
07:25I won't listen to you anymore.
07:28I refuse to answer your questions.
07:29Excuse me.
07:31I refuse to answer your questions. Excuse me.
07:58I need to talk to you, sir.
07:59Can't stop now.
08:06You've seen the new figures?
08:08I'd hoped to refuse the bank loan by now.
08:11Eh, it's a pity so much is tied up in the new machinery.
08:14I needed the machinery because we were doing well.
08:16We had large orders.
08:17And I needed to buy the cotton in bulk.
08:19Obviously I wasn't expecting not to be able to fulfil the contract.
08:22But you've been back to work for a good while now.
08:24But we're still behind with the orders.
08:26And we'll not catch up for...
08:28Not looking like we will catch up.
08:30Well, the bank can extend the loan temporarily.
08:37We'll have to be careful.
08:38I don't think anyone has ever accused me of being careless or frivolous.
08:47Forgive me.
08:50I don't know how I could have prevented this.
08:54Or what to do next.
08:55Well, there are more modern financial procedures.
09:01Investments.
09:04I could let you know when I hear of any such schemes.
09:08Speculation.
09:12I'll not risk everything on some idiot money scheme.
09:17Well, if matters carry on like this,
09:21you might not have anything left to risk.
09:32Sir.
09:35Lord, are you still here?
09:37Yes, sir.
09:38I want to speak to you.
09:41Better come in, then.
10:00Well, sir, what do you want with me?
10:02My name is Higgins.
10:03I'll know who you are.
10:04What do you want?
10:05I want work.
10:07Work?
10:08You've got a nerve.
10:10Hump will tell you I'm a good worker.
10:11I'm not sure you'd like to hear all of what Hump would have to say about you.
10:14I've had to turn away a hundred of my best hands for following you and your union.
10:18And you think that I should take you on?
10:22Might as well set fire to the cotton waste and I've done with it.
10:28I promise you, I'd not speak against you.
10:30If I found anything wrong, I'd give you a fair warning before taking action.
10:33I'm a steady man.
10:34I work hard.
10:35I don't know you're not just planning mischief.
10:38Or maybe you're just interested in saving up money against another strike.
10:43I need work.
10:46For the family of a man who were driven mad.
10:49It is job taken by one of those Irishmen you hired.
10:51Didn't know one end of a loon from another.
10:52Your union forced me into hiring those Irish.
10:57It's good, it didn't you?
10:59Most of them have gone home.
11:04If I were to believe you, Reed.
11:07I can't say that I'm inclined to.
11:10I'd advise you to try some other work and leave mills.
11:13If it were warmer, I'd take Paddy's work and never come back again.
11:16But come winter, those children will starve.
11:18If you knew of any place away from mills,
11:20I'd take any wage they thought I was worth for the sake of those children.
11:23Or you'd take wages less than others.
11:25They have no union, of course.
11:28Your union would be down like a ton of bricks on my Irish
11:30for trying to feed their families,
11:31and yet you do this for these children.
11:34I'll not give you work.
11:36You've wasted your time.
11:38I knew I was.
11:41I was told to ask you by a woman.
11:43I thought you had a kindness about you.
11:46She was mistaken.
11:49But I'm not the first to be misled by a woman.
11:51Tell her to mind her own business next time
11:52and stop wasting your time at night.
12:06I'll look at that man Higgins who went to speak to me.
12:09She was outside the gate when I arrived, sir.
12:11And it's four, no?
12:27Ah!
12:28Miss Hale!
12:31I must congratulate you.
12:33Yes, we are to be married soon.
12:35Delighted to see you again, Miss Hale.
12:38Well, you must hurry, Miss Hale.
12:40Well, my dear girl is busy buying up the whole shop.
12:43Oh!
12:46He is a little grey, but he's very well set up.
12:49He's a very good match for us, Thorntons.
12:52He has been trying to interest John in a speculation.
12:56Speculation?
12:57Oh, excuse me.
12:58I just didn't think that Mr. Thornton would participate in any kind of risky venture.
13:03Oh, everybody does it.
13:05All business is risk, as my Watson would say.
13:09John will have to be more modern in his ideas if he's to keep up.
13:12Oh, no!
13:14You must send the bills to Mulberry Mills.
13:16You must not pay for a button.
13:17We are quite rich enough.
13:26Honestly.
13:29Miss Hale could do with having just a little humility about her decision.
13:35She was at Green's and stopped to congratulate me.
13:38She seemed surprised when I told her of my wedding plans.
13:40She's so grave and disapproving.
13:43As if we couldn't afford it.
13:45It's him, put her right.
13:48It's not as if she would ever get a husband.
13:51She's much older than me.
13:52And so severe.
13:55I told her about Watson's business proposition, and she really turned up her nose at me.
14:00She as much as said you wouldn't be interested, as if she knew you better than me.
14:04And so superior.
14:05Oh, thank you not to discuss my business affairs in the street.
14:09What do you know about anything anyway funny?
14:11Except how to spend money.
14:12I know that if you were to take up Watson's offer and join him in the speculation, you would be
14:17certain to profit.
14:19There is nothing certain about speculation.
14:23I will not risk the livelihoods of my men by joining Watson's tomfool schemes.
14:31If I lose money, how will I be expected to pay off the expense of your wedding?
14:39You'll be sorry.
14:49Is the speculation so risky?
14:53Do you need to ask me that, Mother?
14:56It's very risky.
14:58If it succeeds, all our financial problems will be over, and no one will ever know how bad things are.
15:04If it fails?
15:07At the moment, the payroll is safe.
15:10Would you advise me to risk it?
15:14If you succeeded, I'd never know.
15:16And if it failed, I would have injured all this.
15:20Would you ask me to risk that?
15:26Tell me what to do.
15:29Pray for a good summer.
15:31People will buy cotton clothes.
15:34Pray that some of our buyers pay their bills on time.
15:40I pray that Fanny doesn't have time to order any more from the drapers.
15:56Father, if you may have a good summer, it may be a good summer.
15:59I pray that you may not be able to order your wedding.
15:59I pray that you may be open for a good summer.
16:07You may not be in order for a good summer.
16:07You may be in order for a good summer.
16:27¶¶
16:41¶¶
17:08Are these your children?
17:10No, but they're mine now.
17:13Is your daughter teaching them to read?
17:16I think they're teaching her.
17:19And these are the children you mentioned yesterday?
17:21You didn't believe me.
17:24I spoke to you in a way that I had no business to.
17:27I did not believe you.
17:29I couldn't have taken care of a man such as Boucher's children.
17:33I've made inquiries,
17:35and I know now that you spoke the truth.
17:38I beg your pardon?
17:40Well, Boucher's dead, and I am sorry, but that's the end of it.
17:44Will you take work with me? That's what I came here to ask.
17:50You've called me impudence?
17:53A liar?
17:55A mischief-maker?
17:58But for the sake of these children, you think we could get along?
18:00Well, it's not my proposal that we got them well together.
18:06Work is work.
18:08I'll come, and what's more, I'll thank you,
18:09and that's a good deal from me.
18:12And this is a good deal from me.
18:17Now, mind you, come sharp to your time.
18:19What times we have, we keep sharp.
18:21And the first time I catch you using that brain of yours to make trouble,
18:25off you go.
18:28Now, you know where you are.
18:29Reckon I'll leave my brains at home, then.
18:38Was Miss Hale the woman that told you to come to me?
18:44You may have said.
18:45And you'd have been a bit more civil.
18:53Oh, my father's waiting in the sitting room.
19:07I thought you might like to know that I've taken Higgins on.
19:11I'm glad of it.
19:13I didn't know that it was you who urged him to come to me.
19:17Would it have made you more or less likely to give him a job?
19:21I don't know.
19:23I'll not withdraw it, though, if that's what worries you.
19:27I wouldn't think you're capable of that.
19:30I have a better opinion of you than you do of me at the moment.
19:34I feel.
19:54Margaret, my dear,
19:56you're not obliged to answer this question,
19:59but
20:02do you have any reason for thinking
20:04that Mr. Thornton cared for you?
20:09Father, I'm sorry.
20:11You, um,
20:14rejected him.
20:16I should have told you.
20:18Oh, no, no, no.
20:21It would account for him
20:22not coming so often
20:24to the house.
20:25I do value his company
20:27and conversation,
20:28especially now
20:30how your mother's gone,
20:31but, um,
20:34if you feel uncomfortable
20:35in his presence,
20:36I'll ask him not to come to the house again.
20:44I mean,
20:45I'm sure you were honest with him.
20:47That's the most important thing.
20:49I've done nothing that I wouldn't do again.
20:55I've done nothing that I would do again.
20:55I've done nothing that I would do to make,
21:03and I would do it again.
21:21I would never make,
21:48I needed that.
21:51You're becoming a model employee.
21:55Maybe someone will tell the union.
21:57I always kept to my time.
21:59Ask anybody.
22:01Now I'll not give Thornton a chance to give me the sack.
22:04Puts in all hours himself.
22:06Sometimes I don't think he sleeps from one day to the next.
22:08And he's taken an interest in young Thomas,
22:10saying he's got to have a good education.
22:12He's a funny one.
22:15I can't make him out.
22:16Oh, no, you'll definitely be drummed out of the union.
22:19For thinking not so badly about a master.
22:24Laugh at me.
22:29Call me.
22:32At me.
22:34Come.
22:36At me.
22:38Animal.
22:39Animal.
22:41What are you doing here?
22:44Where's Higgins?
22:46Have you had your supper?
22:49Mary went to the butcher, but she didn't do dinner.
22:57Why are you so late?
22:59Shift finished an hour ago.
23:02What are you up to?
23:05Work wasn't finished.
23:06We stayed until it was.
23:08Can't pay over your time.
23:09See you working over your time.
23:14You go on there.
23:16No one else will take me on and he'll put food in his mouth.
23:19You'll not have his supper tonight, he's been telling me.
23:22No, some days there's good meat.
23:23Other days nothing fit for a dog.
23:25Even if you've got money in your pocket.
23:29There's your market forces in action for you, master.
23:33It's a pity you can't get up some scheme.
23:37Buy food or sale.
23:38Cook for 20 instead of one.
23:41And everybody would be able to afford a good meal a day.
23:44I need to have fit minds to do studying.
23:46Careful.
23:47Someone will report you to Masters Union for that kind of talk.
23:51If men eat well, they work well.
23:53And that'll please Masters too, unless they're idiots.
23:56Which some of them are.
23:59We need someone to cook.
24:01There's an old outhouse out the back.
24:03Not any use as far as I can tell.
24:05You did bring your brains with you to work today, didn't you?
24:07Well, I tried to keep them hidden, but it can't do without them altogether.
24:13You'll get some figures up and we'll see.
24:17No promising, mind?
24:28Sholto cries that he cannot remember what his aunt Margaret looks like.
24:32It's freezing in London.
24:34I can't wait for spring.
24:36You must have icicles on your noses in Milton.
24:39It must be even more arctic up there.
24:42Couldn't you try to brave the journey and visit us soon?
24:45And persuade Uncle to come with you?
25:00Master.
25:02Have you come in?
25:03It's June today.
25:06I've gone for a while.
25:07I've been all day, Albert.
25:09No, no, I've been so busy.
25:12Step out, get out, get out, get out, get out.
25:47This is very good. Really. Very good. Isn't that your daughter?
25:59Aye. She's a good girl. A fair cook. She's come into her own since her sister died, got rest her
26:06soul.
26:23Congratulations, Mrs. Thornton. Very good match, I'm sure.
26:28I haven't seen Mr. Thornton for some time. The winter's been going on, so I do hope he isn't sickening.
26:36My son works hard, Mr. Hale. He's never ill.
26:41Isn't that Mr. Latton's daughter over there?
26:51As for Mr. Bell, there's to be a reunion of all my Oxford friends.
26:56This time you'll accept his invitation.
26:57I think I will. I can give my pupils a holiday for a few weeks, and now that Thornton's stopped
27:05coming, I'm worried about him.
27:11Is Marlborough Mills really in danger?
27:13Yes. I'm afraid it is. But it's his spirit I fear for. Remember, after his father died, he struggled for
27:24years to build everything up again.
27:26He raised his family from poverty. How much worse to be brought low a second time.
27:32I know what it is to disappoint one's family.
27:36He will feel bitterly. He's failed his mother.
27:39But he will not have failed in her eyes.
27:45Now it's my turn to leave you.
27:48I'm a little nervous, to tell you the truth, my dear.
27:50Don't worry, Father.
27:52It's natural to wonder whether a place where you were so happy so many years ago, whether Oxford will still
27:57be the same.
27:58But once you're there with Mr. Bell, you'll have a wonderful time.
28:02Wrap up the room.
28:03It's still for your children.
28:40It's to Margaret, of course.
28:42She's my main concern now.
28:44I worry.
28:47I worry about her when I'm gone.
28:51Oh, come, come. That won't be for a while.
28:55Anyway, I thought it was settled. I'm her guardian.
28:57I've got no one else to look after.
28:59When the time comes, have no fear. She shall want for nothing.
29:03Are you care for her better than I have?
29:05Oh, nonsense. I thought you'd put all that talk behind you.
29:11You know, these last few weeks have done you good. You looked years younger.
29:15Yes, I feel it. I feel as though I've come home.
29:23I must tell Margaret.
29:25Well, welcome.
29:29But I don't know.
29:34Thank God.
29:35Thank you, sir.
29:35Better, better.
29:59Mr. Hill, dead.
30:01In his sleep, poor fellow, never recovered from his wife's death.
30:11Mr. Come in, sit down, let's go for a moment.
30:25Margaret, what of her?
30:29There's nothing to keep her here now.
30:32Her aunt's coming to take her home, you see.
30:37She's seen a great deal of sorrow since she's been here.
30:41We'll be sorry to see her gone, Miriam.
30:49Oh, my dear, how you have suffered.
30:52And what sorrows your father's brought you.
30:58We are leaving instantly.
31:01Dixon, you have to stay here for the time being and arrange an auction for all this.
31:06Not all the books.
31:09I'm going to say goodbye to our friends.
31:10I can't imagine how many friends you can have here.
31:15I will help you say goodbye.
31:17And then we are leaving this horrible place for good.
31:23I am sorry that you're leaving, Miss Hale.
31:26I was hoping that you might visit my house.
31:30I've finished it with Indian wallpaper from the exhibition.
31:34I don't suppose you could travel back?
31:36Miss Hale will be in no mood for travelling back from London just to see your furnishings,
31:41first of all night.
31:43It was a while ago.
31:45But I'm sorry for the way I spoke to you at our last meeting.
31:48I know that you meant well.
31:56So you're going.
32:00I've brought you father's Plato.
32:04I thought that you might like it.
32:08I shall treasure it.
32:11I thought with your father's memory, he was a good friend to me.
32:18So you are going.
32:25I'll never come back.
32:28I wish you well, Mr Thornton.
32:33I must get her home as soon as possible.
32:35To be sure, as soon as possible.
32:58You're back.
33:01You're back.
33:02You're back and me.
33:28Nicholas!
33:29Nicholas!
33:30Stop the car!
33:35Margaret, there you are.
33:36We thought you'd gone.
33:38We were on our way to the station to try and catch her.
33:40I don't think you could leave us without saying goodbye.
33:43I'd better come to a normal home in here next week so I wouldn't let her go without a farewell
33:46from her friends.
33:47Nicholas.
33:54No, Margaret, no.
33:55Not between friends.
33:57No, not for you, Nicholas.
33:58For the children.
34:00You can't refuse it for the children.
34:02You'll let me know how they do.
34:21I don't know when she's going to cheer up.
34:23It's been three months now and she's still insisting on wearing black.
34:28Henry, I'm counting on you.
34:31You know how much Captain Lennox and I would like the two of you to get together?
34:36Mind you, she's terribly good with Sholto.
34:40I should hate to lose her.
34:43Perhaps we could all live together in one big house.
34:49Mr. Bell arrives today.
34:51Maybe he can make her smile.
34:54Mr. Bell, do you really mean it?
34:56Of course.
34:57I was sitting on the train thinking how could we amuse ourselves
34:59when I got it into my head we should visit Helston.
35:01Do you really like the idea?
35:03When can we go?
35:04Tomorrow?
35:23The game is still alive.
35:24There's nothing.
35:25What did you do to survive?
35:26There's nothing.
35:28Anything else?
35:28The game is still alive.
35:30We should go in.
35:30We should have a chance.
35:30You want to walk out of your head.
35:30The struggle is in.
35:31The struggle is in.
35:32The struggle is still in.
35:33The struggle is a place.
35:35You can't be in.
35:35The struggle is in.
35:37The struggle is since I don't think he was a man
35:40somewhere where you're a kid.
36:03We had to make some improvements.
36:06Well, alterations.
36:08We have seven children.
36:09Yes, of course.
36:12It's just a pity the roses are gone.
36:16The children must have a place to play.
36:19Fresh air prepares the mind for God.
36:23Better than all that book reading.
36:25Precisely. My very words.
36:27We have to get back to simple truth.
36:29Forget about all this intellectualism, this questioning.
36:33This dissenting?
36:36Like my father, is that what you mean?
36:37Well, no. Well, yes.
36:41I thought we ought to keep things simple.
36:45Ignorant. Uneducated. Is that what you mean?
36:48I'm sure the world would be a better place.
36:51Miss Hale has been in the north,
36:53where life is a little more...
36:56Well, more wild.
37:03Why are you smiling?
37:05I was thinking of Mrs. Thornton.
37:08How she'd love to be called wild.
37:12Oh, dear. I nearly lost my temper.
37:15Yes, I'm afraid this trip has not gone as I'd wished.
37:18I'm sorry.
37:20When we first arrived in Milton,
37:21I was guilty of romanticising the South.
37:25I've got to work hard now.
37:26We're not doing the opposite.
37:28Oh, no, I can't have this.
37:29Mrs. Thornton being wild is bad enough,
37:31but romantic.
37:33No, no.
37:35You wouldn't call Milton romantic in any way at all, surely?
37:40Mr. Bell.
37:45When Mother was dying, Frederick came to Milton.
37:48We were very secret.
37:49You know why. He left before the funeral.
37:52I went with him to the station,
37:55and we were seen
37:57by Mr. Thornton.
37:59I see.
38:03He was seen embracing
38:05at the station late at night.
38:08Oh, I see.
38:08No, no.
38:09That's not the worst of it.
38:11A man approached Frederick,
38:13someone that knew him.
38:15He fell and died later.
38:18Someone had seen me,
38:20and I
38:22had to lie to the police inspector.
38:25I don't quite see the problem.
38:27Frederick didn't cause this man's death.
38:28No, no.
38:30I lied.
38:33I was worried
38:34because Fred was still in the country.
38:36I lied,
38:36and
38:38Mr. Thornton knows it.
38:42Is Frederick safe now?
38:44Yes.
38:45Yes, he's married now,
38:47settled down in Cadiz.
38:49Sometimes I think
38:50I'll never see him again.
38:51But that's not why you're upset.
38:54No.
38:56It's just
38:58I hate to think
39:00I hate to think
39:01that Mr. Thornton
39:02thinks badly of me.
39:04Are you sure that's all?
39:09I thought it was going to be
39:10such a lovely day.
39:14Look,
39:15perhaps I could have a word
39:16with Thornton,
39:17though I'm afraid
39:18he doesn't think very much of me.
39:19Oh, no, no.
39:20I don't want him to know about Fred.
39:22I do sometimes wish he in you,
39:23but don't say anything, please.
39:26I don't know what I want.
39:28Very well.
39:29Let us think of other things.
39:33You know, Margaret,
39:35I had an idea
39:36when your father died
39:37of
39:39looking after you.
39:41You have?
39:43Well, you are.
39:44No, you don't quite understand.
39:48I rather hoped
39:49you would wish
39:50to look after me as well.
39:55I never thought to have a wife.
39:57Too busy being an Oxford academic.
40:02Anyway, I hoped.
40:05Oh, but that doesn't matter.
40:07I promised your father
40:08I would take care of you.
40:09Now,
40:10I've often thought
40:11how very depressing
40:12it would be
40:12if one were to leave
40:13one's fortune
40:14to people who were
40:15waiting around
40:16hoping he would die off.
40:17So,
40:18I mean to sign over
40:20the bulk of my monies
40:21and property
40:21to you now.
40:23Oh, no, I can't.
40:24I will not.
40:25Yes, you will.
40:27I am going back
40:28to South America
40:28where I should live out
40:29the rest of my life
40:30in perfect peace
40:31and prosperity
40:31knowing that you
40:32are putting my money
40:33to good use.
40:34Well, I couldn't.
40:35Well, what about you?
40:37Well, something
40:38I've been trying to ignore.
40:40My trip to London
40:41was not just to see you,
40:42my dear.
40:43I saw my doctor.
40:47Oh, shh.
40:50You must think of me
40:51living the life
40:52under the Argentine skies.
40:54Not many men
40:55can plan their exit
40:56from this world
40:56in such a leisurely way.
40:59Come now,
40:59we must cheer up.
41:02If we go now,
41:03we'll be in London
41:03in time for dinner.
41:05I'm in very great
41:06need of good food.
41:11So,
41:13I'm almost at the end
41:14of sorting my business affairs.
41:16When do you sell?
41:17On Wednesday.
41:19I shall be pleased
41:20to be warmed
41:21by the sun again.
41:23I spent much
41:23of my youth there.
41:27Yes,
41:28I have signed
41:29all my property
41:30and fortune
41:30to my goddaughter,
41:32Miss Hale.
41:32I have no other family
41:33in Hale
41:34as my oldest friend.
41:38But South America,
41:40one you need money
41:41to live on.
41:42Oh,
41:43I have sufficient
41:43for a very good life there.
41:46What remains?
41:48I'm sorry.
41:50Thank you,
41:51but don't be.
41:51I consider myself
41:53lucky to be able
41:53to settle my own affairs.
41:56To know that Miss Hale
41:57is secure
41:58will ease my heart
41:59in these last few months.
42:04By the way,
42:04Miss Hale is unlikely
42:05to bother you
42:06or to interfere.
42:07She is landlord
42:08in name only.
42:10Even if Miss Hale
42:11were minded
42:11to interfere,
42:13she has little
42:14enough opinion of me.
42:16There may not be
42:17much left
42:17for her to interfere with.
42:20Yes,
42:20well,
42:20I'm sorry,
42:21I'm afraid
42:21there's nothing
42:21more I can do.
42:22I've left business
42:23behind me.
42:26I say,
42:27long Wednesday.
42:39You might be mistaken,
42:41Thornton,
42:41if you think
42:42Miss Hale
42:42has a bad opinion
42:43on you.
42:47And you might not
42:48judge her
42:49as harshly
42:49as you do.
42:51In fact...
42:51As I say,
42:52Mr. Bell,
42:53the business
42:53in Milton's finished.
42:55And now the future
42:56of this mill
42:56is no concern
42:57of yours.
42:58I'm afraid
42:58I'm busy too.
42:59Good day.
43:42I think Margaret
43:42is looking so much
43:43better.
43:44Don't you,
43:44Dixon?
43:45Yes, Miss.
43:47Now we're back
43:47in London.
43:48I'm so glad
43:49she decided to stay
43:50with us in Harley Street.
43:51even though now
43:52she's quite the heiress.
43:54She's looking
43:55much like her old self.
43:57What do you think,
43:58Henry?
44:02I think Margaret
44:03looks very well.
44:05Now she's so rich.
44:08If you don't ask her soon,
44:09we'll have a job
44:10keeping others away.
44:11I will try her
44:12when I'm ready.
44:13It's really none
44:14of your concern.
44:16As it is,
44:17I'm helping her
44:18with business matters.
44:19She's decided
44:20to use some of her money
44:21to try to help Frederick.
44:22Oh, I hope you can.
44:24She will love you forever.
44:27Margaret,
44:27we're engaged
44:28at the Piper's
44:29on Saturday.
44:32Oh, dear.
44:33I know that look.
44:35Margaret is about
44:35to tell us something
44:36and we cannot argue.
44:38She had just
44:39the same look
44:40on her face
44:40when she insisted
44:41on giving up
44:42dancing lessons
44:43when we were nine.
44:44Margaret,
44:45what's wrong?
44:46Nothing.
44:47But Edith is right.
44:51I'm so grateful
44:52to you, aunt,
44:53for taking me in.
44:55I've been back
44:56in London
44:56for a long time now.
44:58I'm of age
44:59and I am of means.
45:01Henry is helping me
45:02to understand
45:03my financial affairs
45:04and responsibilities.
45:05We're trying
45:06to help Frederick.
45:08We will probably
45:08not succeed,
45:09but it would have
45:11pleased mother and father
45:12that we are trying.
45:13It is time for me
45:14to take responsibility
45:15for my life.
45:16You want to leave us?
45:18Or Sholto would cry, sir.
45:19No.
45:21But I would like
45:22to make my own decisions
45:23for my day-to-day life.
45:25I would like to keep
45:26to my room if I wish.
45:28I would like not to go
45:29to the Piper's if I wish,
45:31and I don't.
45:33I can't stand them.
45:35I don't like
45:36London society.
45:39I learnt something
45:40when I went back
45:40to Helston,
45:42expecting it to be
45:43the paradise
45:44I knew as a child.
45:46Try as we might,
45:48happy as we were.
45:51We can't go back.
46:01I told you.
46:03I was right,
46:04and John was wrong.
46:07For once,
46:08you must admit
46:08I was right.
46:10If you'd have invested
46:11in Watson's scheme,
46:12you'd have made thousands,
46:13enough to get you
46:13out of trouble.
46:16Admit it.
46:23I will ask Watson
46:24if he will lend
46:24John some money.
46:25But he was very angry
46:26when John would not
46:27join him in the venture.
46:29And he says
46:30a gentleman must
46:31pay his own way.
46:37And I think
46:37you can think again
46:38about Anne Latimer.
46:39I'm sure she won't
46:40have you now.
46:45I don't mind
46:46losing the house,
46:47will I?
46:48I don't mind
46:50about the house.
46:52I care about you.
46:58Thank God
46:58funny's taking care of.
47:04Just be you
47:05and I again.
47:13I have some
47:14excellent news.
47:15Really?
47:16You have made money.
47:18What since yesterday?
47:19While I slept?
47:20How clever of me.
47:21Money makes money.
47:23I would rather
47:24earn it honestly
47:25and put it to good use.
47:26Margaret,
47:27you're sounding a little,
47:28well,
47:29I hate to notice,
47:30but a little revolutionary.
47:32Mr Bell was a shrewd fellow.
47:34He bought into
47:35a hundred to one investment
47:36with a chap named Watson.
47:37Watson?
47:38Fanny Thornton's husband?
47:39The very one.
47:41Being hailed
47:42as a wonder boy.
47:43Probably a nine days wonder,
47:44but nevertheless,
47:45Fanny struck gold.
47:47Which is more than
47:48we can say for her brother.
47:49Oh?
47:51He wouldn't have
47:52anything to do with it.
47:53Far too principled.
47:56Might just be
47:56the last straw.
47:58I'm afraid you'll soon
47:59be looking for
47:59a new tenant, Margaret.
48:31What a nice,
48:33creepy present.
48:35It would be such a lot,
48:37but I hope
48:42where's Higgins?
48:44He's finishing off something.
48:47Mr Arnett
48:49will sometime
48:51bring her
48:52cat into.
48:59I said,
48:59have you heard
49:00out about
49:00Miss Margaret?
49:02Still here.
49:05Just because
49:05it's the last shift,
49:06master,
49:07doesn't mean
49:07we shouldn't
49:07finish the job well.
49:09I'm nobody's master
49:10anymore, Higgins.
49:14If you're ever
49:15in a position
49:15to take home workers again,
49:17there's a fair number
49:18of us,
49:18they'd be happy
49:18to run a mill for you.
49:22I got up a petition
49:23to collect the names.
49:29Anyway,
49:29I was asking
49:29about Miss Margaret.
49:30Have you heard
49:31how she's doing?
49:33She's well.
49:35She's in London.
49:37I'll not see her again.
49:38I thought she might
49:39have gone to Spain.
49:41Spain?
49:42Why would you go there?
49:43Well,
49:43to see her brother now.
49:44He's her only family.
49:45Her brother?
49:48She doesn't have
49:49a brother.
49:51Him that were over
49:52when the mother would die.
49:55Kept her a secret,
49:56they did.
49:57My Mary used to
49:58fetch things for them.
50:01She's a quiet girl,
50:02but she talks to me.
50:04Why wouldn't Mr. Hale
50:05tell me that he had a son?
50:07Something to do
50:08with the law.
50:09Found himself
50:10on the wrong side
50:10of the Navy
50:11and real danger he was.
50:16He was her brother.
50:22Well,
50:25Thornton,
50:26I'll bid you a good day.
50:30Goodbye, Higgins.
50:32Good luck.
50:33Good luck.
50:45Henry.
50:47I wonder,
50:49would you help me?
50:50I've decided
50:51I need to go to Milton
50:52and I'd like you
50:53to come with me.
50:56Of course.
50:57Whatever I may do,
50:58I'm at your service.
51:00Always.
51:02Always.
51:02Always.
51:16Thanks.
51:19Bye.
51:21Bye.
51:21Bye.
51:24Bye.
51:26Bye.
51:29myself.
51:30Bye.
52:03He's not here, if you've come to crow over him. He's not here.
52:11Come to look over your possessions, have you?
52:14And he's worked all his life for them.
52:18You once accused me of not knowing what kind of man I'd rejected.
52:22And you were right.
52:24But if you think I've come to triumph over him,
52:27and that I don't feel keenly the misfortune of this...
52:30empty place,
52:33then you don't know me at all.
52:37I don't know where he is.
52:41Don't think I'm worried for myself.
52:44You'll see me, right?
52:46He always has.
53:11I don't know where he is.
53:41There's a ten-minute stop here.
53:44Sorry for the debate, but we're halfway back to London.
53:47I think we have to wait for a northbound train for fun.
53:56There's a ten-minute stop here.
53:57There's a ten-minute stop here.
54:32Where are you going?
54:35To London.
54:38I've been to Milton.
54:39There's a ten-minute stop here.
54:46There's a ten-minute stop here.
54:46There's a ten-minute stop here.
55:16You don't need Henry to help me explain.
55:19You don't need Henry to explain.
55:29I have to get this right.
55:30It's a business proposition.
55:34I have some £15,000.
55:37It is lying in the bank at present, earning very little interest.
55:41Now, my financial advisors tell me that if you were to take this money and use it to run
55:46Barbara Mills, you could give me a very much better rate of interest.
55:52So, you see, it is only a business matter.
55:57It would not be obliged to me in any way.
55:59It is you who will be doing me the service.
56:04It is you who will be doing me the service.
56:21PIANO PLAYS
56:50PIANO PLAYS
57:12Goodbye, Margot.
57:29Come along with me.
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